Servant of the People

Servant of the People is a populist political party in Ukraine which was founded on 31 March 2018 by the comedian Ivan Bakanov, who named the party for a 2015-2019 television show produced by the company for which he was a lawyer, Kvartal 95. In 2018, Volodymyr Zelensky ran as the party's presidential nominee, challenging the incumbent President and chocolate businessman Petro Poroshenko; Zelensky won 30.24% of the vote in the first round as compared to Poroshenko's 15.95%, and he was a popular early frontrunner.